§ 180.586 - Clothianidin; tolerances for residues.  


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  • § 180.586 Clothianidin; tolerances for residues.

    (a) General.

    (1) Tolerances are established for residues of the insecticide clothianidin, including its metabolites and degradates. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only clothianidin, (E)-N-[(2-Chloro-5-thiazolyl)methyl]-N′ -methyl-N″ -nitroguanidine, in or on the following raw agricultural commodities:

    Table 1 to Paragraph (a)(1)

    CommodityParts per million
    Almond, hulls1.5
    Beet, sugar, dried pulp0.03
    Beet, sugar, molasses0.05
    Beet, sugar, roots0.02
    Berry, low-growing, subgroup 13-07H, except strawberry0.01
    Canola, seed0.01
    Cotton, gin byproducts4.5
    Cotton, undelinted seed0.20
    Fig0.05
    Food and feed commodities (other than those covered by a higher tolerance) in food/feed handling establishments0.01
    Fruit, pome1.0
    Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except rice, forage0.35
    Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except rice, hay0.07
    Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except rice, stover0.1
    Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except rice, straw0.05
    Grain, cereal, group 15, except rice0.01
    Grape0.60
    Milk0.01
    Mustard, seed0.01
    Nut, tree, group 140.01
    Peach0.80
    Pepper0.80
    Persimmon1 0.5
    Pomegranate0.20
    Potato, chips0.6
    Potato, granules/flakes1.5
    Rice, grain0.01
    Soybean, seed0.02
    Tea, dried1 70
    Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 51.9
    Vegetable, bulb, group 3-070.45
    Vegetable, cucurbit, group 90.06
    Vegetable, fruiting, group 8, except pepper0.20
    Vegetable, leafy, except brassica, group 43.0
    Vegetable, root, except sugar beet, subgroup 1B0.8
    Vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C0.3
    1 No U.S. registrations.

    (2) Time-limited tolerances are established for residues of the insecticide clothianidin, including its metabolites and degradates. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only clothianidin, (E)-1-(2-chloro-1,3-thiazol-5-ylmethyl)-3-methyl-2-nitroguanidine, in or on the following raw agricultural commodity:

    CommodityParts per millionExpiration/revocation date
    Rice, seed0.016/23/12

    (b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. A time-limited tolerance specified in the following table is established for residues of clothianidin, (E)-N-[(2-chloro-5-thiazolyl)methyl]-N'-methyl-N”-nitroguanidine, in or on the specified agricultural commodity, resulting from use of the pesticide pursuant to FIFRA section 18 emergency exemptions. This tolerance expires on the date specified in the table.

    Table 3 to Paragraph (b)

    CommodityParts per
    million
    Expiration/
    revocation date
    Fruit, citrus, group 10-100.0712/31/26
    Rice, grain0.512/31/2427

    (c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]

    (d) Indirect and inadvertant residues. Tolerances are established for the indirect or inadvertent residues of the insecticide clothianidin, including its metabolites and degradates. Compliance with the tolerance levels specified below is to be determined by measuring only clothianidin, (E)-1-(2-chloro-1,3-thiazol-5-ylmethyl)-3-methyl-2-nitroguanidine, in or on the following raw agricultural commodities when present therein as a result of the application of clothianidin to crops listed in paragraph (a) of this section:

    CommodityParts per million
    Animal feed, nongrass, group 180.02
    Grass, forage, fodder and hay, group 170.02
    Soybean, forage0.02
    Soybean, hay0.02

    [74 FR 65028, Dec. 9, 2009, as amended at 76 FR 7718, Feb. 11, 2011; 76 FR 25246, May 4, 2011; 76 FR 34886, June 15, 2011; 77 FR 52252, Aug. 29, 2012; 78 FR 19136, Mar. 29, 2013; 80 FR 10007, Feb. 25, 2015; 82 FR 57151, Dec. 4, 2017; 84 FR 53336, Oct. 7, 2019; 84 FR 64777, Nov. 25, 2019; 86 FR 8704, Feb. 9, 2021; 86 FR 56656, Oct. 12, 2021; 88 FR 75506, Nov. 3, 2023; 89 FR 85069, Oct. 25, 2024]